Dr. Alison Woollard | |
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Born | Alison Claire S. Woollard 1968 (age 48–49) Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey |
Institutions |
University College, London Birkbeck College, London Hertford College, Oxford |
Alma mater |
Birkbeck College, London University of Oxford |
Thesis | Cell cycle control in fission yeast (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Nurse |
Doctoral students | Caroline Bowen Charles Brabin Mariana Canas-Simŏes Sophie Gilbert Rachel Nimmo Roger Pocock |
Notable awards | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2013) |
Website Official website |
Alison Woollard (born 1968 in Kingston-upon-Thames) is a Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford where she is also a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
Woollard was educated at University of London, gaining her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences in 1991 and gained her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford on fission yeast supervised by Paul Nurse in 1995.
Woollard's research focuses on developmental biology of the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans particularly RUNX genes.
In 2013 Woollard presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.